Re: Suns considered harmful (was: Pluto)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 03:34:24 MDT

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    Spike wrote:
    >
    > The more I think about it however, the more doubts I have
    > about my own argument on that. Eliezer's notion has
    > considerable power: any logical growing AI will naturally
    > calculate its theoretical upper bounds, then scramble like hell
    > to achieve that level. This would mean stopping the
    > absurd waste of energy pouring out into cold dead space
    > from the stars.

    Not right away, I think. When everyone's still too young to need an
    MBrain, I suppose you could leave the Sun on a few thousand years longer,
    for the romance of it. But, yeah... it's a hell of a waste. Maybe if
    there are unlimited resources Elsewhere, the stars would stay on. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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